Day in Pictures, July 12, 2013

July 12, 2013 |By Mike Moffitt

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He has the hands of sturgeon: Freshwater ecologist Joern Gessner holds a young European sturgeon before releasing it into the Mulde River near Dessau, Germany. The European sturgeon was once common in the rivers of northern Germany and the North Sea before overfishing nearly rendered it extinct.

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He has the hands of sturgeon: Freshwater ecologist Joern Gessner holds a young European sturgeon before releasing it into the Mulde River near Dessau, Germany. The European sturgeon was once common in the rivers of northern Germany and the North Sea before overfishing nearly rendered it extinct.